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. >> the president gave his own defense of that shifting explanation in an abc interview. >> as information came in, information was put out. the information may not have always been right the first time. these are people i know, and if there's something to be fixed, it will get fixed. >> questions remain, taking the administration at its word that it didn't intentionally mislead on the story, the only other explanation seems to be a massive intelligence failure. by the way, in ohio wednesday, romney once again told the story of meeting one of the victims of the benghazi attack. >> i met some wonderful people. one was a former navy s.e.a.l., and glen doherty, and he -- we chatted for a while. >> that's the last time we're going to hear that story. the campaign says it is respecting the wishes of doherty's family. doherty's mother said this to our nbc affiliate whch, "i don't trust romney. he shouldn't make my son's death part of his political agenda. it's wrong to use these brave young men who wanted freedom for all to degrade obama." finally, we've got a new round of battleground state num
. >> the president gave his own defense of that shifting explanation in an abc interview. >> as information came in, information was put out. the information may not have always been right the first time. these are people i know, and if there's something to be fixed, it will get fixed. >> questions remain, taking the administration at its word that it didn't intentionally mislead on the story, the only other explanation seems to be a massive intelligence failure. by the way,...
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just this week the libya situation put the president on the defensive. the economy speaks for itself. so the only place the voters can really see the obama-biden ticket under pressure is in the debates. on the other side we're hoping governor romney will sit for an interview with us. we're negotiating that right now. we'll have an update for you on monday. generally speaking, mr. romney has been more accessible than president obama, but it is true the romney campaign is playing it very safe. at the debate tonight, vice president biden is the experienced hand. he's 27 years older than paul ryan and biden knows how to attack. the congressman is an unknown quantity when it comes to dealing with this kind of pressure. but talking points expects mr. ryan to be armed with panels that might slow down mr. biden who will most likely go after ryan hard. be interesting to see hot congressman handles that. that's a memo. top of the story, four years ago it was sarah palin debating joe biden. >> all you got to do is go down union street and go to katy's restaurant or
just this week the libya situation put the president on the defensive. the economy speaks for itself. so the only place the voters can really see the obama-biden ticket under pressure is in the debates. on the other side we're hoping governor romney will sit for an interview with us. we're negotiating that right now. we'll have an update for you on monday. generally speaking, mr. romney has been more accessible than president obama, but it is true the romney campaign is playing it very safe. at...
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ryan: they proposed a cut to defense to begin with, and now we have another $500 billion cut to defense that's lurking on the horizon. they encysted upon the cut involved in the debt negotiations. >> moderator: let's put the automatic defense cuts aside. no one wants that, but i want to know how do you do the math and have this increase in defense spending? ryan: you don't cut it by a trillion dollars. that's what we are talking about. >> moderator: what national security issues justify an increase? ryan: cutting 80,000 soldiers, 20 ,000 marines, 120 cargo planes, push the -- >> moderator: drawing down in one war. ryan: if the cuts go through, the nay -- navy will be the smallest it's been since world war i inviting weakness. we believe in peace through strength. don't impose devastating cuts on the military. we say don't cut the military by a trillion dollars. not increase it by a trillion. don't cut it by a trillion. >> moderator: quickly, i want to move on. biden: we don't call it. this so-called i know we don't want to question the automatic cut, but that was part of a debt deal the
ryan: they proposed a cut to defense to begin with, and now we have another $500 billion cut to defense that's lurking on the horizon. they encysted upon the cut involved in the debt negotiations. >> moderator: let's put the automatic defense cuts aside. no one wants that, but i want to know how do you do the math and have this increase in defense spending? ryan: you don't cut it by a trillion dollars. that's what we are talking about. >> moderator: what national security issues...
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i think, look, he surprised me on how aggressive and defensive on the economy, bringing up the 47%. i was very surprised, though, about how strong ryan was on foreign policy. it's going to be interesting how this plays out because i think... i think women were up for grabs here. i think that biden really scored points that the last thing we need is another ground war in the middle-east. there were different issues where i think he really pushed hard. but i don't know about the likeability of the smirking ando -- how he over did, i found it condescending and overdone. >> there was a moment, talking about the dimeanor, there was a moment at the very end, maybe when most voters weren't play paying attention, paul ryan started his closing statement and gave what i thought was a sincere thank to you martha raddatz, to the crowd and to joe biden. when he thanked joe biden, biden was smirking. i thought that came across as very disrespectful and symbol symbolic of the way that joe biden handled the night. on the substance, i was struck by the same thing with respect to libbia. it seemed th
i think, look, he surprised me on how aggressive and defensive on the economy, bringing up the 47%. i was very surprised, though, about how strong ryan was on foreign policy. it's going to be interesting how this plays out because i think... i think women were up for grabs here. i think that biden really scored points that the last thing we need is another ground war in the middle-east. there were different issues where i think he really pushed hard. but i don't know about the likeability of...
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don't cut defense by $1 trillion. that's what we're talking about. >> what national security issue -- >> who's cutting it by $1 trillion? >> -- would justify an increase? >> we're going to cut 80,000 soldiers, 20,000 marines, 120 cargo planes. we're going to push the joint -- >> drawing down one war and one war -- >> if these cuts go through, our navy will be the smallest it has been since before world war i. this invites weakness. look, do we believe in peace through strength? you bet we do. we don't impose the devastating cuts on our military. we're saying don't cut the military by $1 trillion. not increase it by $1 trillion, don't cut it by $1 trillion. >> quickly, vice president biden on this. i want to move on. >> we don't cut it. i might add, this so-called, i know we don't want to use the fancy word, see quester the automatic cut. that was part of a debt deal they asked for. let me tell you what my friend said announcing he supported the deal, i'm paraphrasing, we've been looking for this moment for a long time
don't cut defense by $1 trillion. that's what we're talking about. >> what national security issue -- >> who's cutting it by $1 trillion? >> -- would justify an increase? >> we're going to cut 80,000 soldiers, 20,000 marines, 120 cargo planes. we're going to push the joint -- >> drawing down one war and one war -- >> if these cuts go through, our navy will be the smallest it has been since before world war i. this invites weakness. look, do we believe in...
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ryan was on defense most of the night. in terms of biden being aggressive, joe biden is authentic. he says what he means, does what he says. spoke with conviction tonight. he cares about what he's saying and that showed. that came across to the american people. >> now, congressman ryan also made the case that this has been a negative campaign and he got some points in. are you convinced that there will be a difference showing up at the polls in the coming days? >> very little movement in the polls in the last week. >> a slide for you guys. >> a slight movement. this is a close race. we said it would be a close rate up to the end. these debates important. people are starting to make decisions. tonight, two very, very different visions, the difference between lifetime of fighting for the middle class versus someone who just learned the words middle class the past four weeks. >> what should we expect from the president the next to you weeks? will his he can bait be different. >> he will come ready to go, fired and the course of the next couple of days, he'll continue getting ready for
ryan was on defense most of the night. in terms of biden being aggressive, joe biden is authentic. he says what he means, does what he says. spoke with conviction tonight. he cares about what he's saying and that showed. that came across to the american people. >> now, congressman ryan also made the case that this has been a negative campaign and he got some points in. are you convinced that there will be a difference showing up at the polls in the coming days? >> very little...
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i think what we're seeing is an absence of an actual defense of ryan's performance so they're grabbing for libya. >> i want to go back to that because obstruction is not discussed enough on the national stage and paul ryan kept with this lie of we're trying to be bipartisan and biden repeatedly pointed out areas of obstruction. he pointed out congress' 7% approval rating, which is the point of obstruction, to ruin congress' rating so americans will throw out the party in power. he talked about the embassy security money being removed, he talked about if they just get out of the way. even the stimulus letter moment, which i loved. ryan is trying to attack the stimulus, and he said, well, you asked gor stimulus money twice. you wrote me two letters which proves republicans know that these policies are valuable and important and helpful to americans and still they oppose them. >> indeed. joy, the republican divorce from reality based thinking was evident inside the debate hall but you saw it outsides a well. take a listen to this. >> who said communist down here? what do you mean by that?
i think what we're seeing is an absence of an actual defense of ryan's performance so they're grabbing for libya. >> i want to go back to that because obstruction is not discussed enough on the national stage and paul ryan kept with this lie of we're trying to be bipartisan and biden repeatedly pointed out areas of obstruction. he pointed out congress' 7% approval rating, which is the point of obstruction, to ruin congress' rating so americans will throw out the party in power. he talked...
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cut defense by $1 trillion. that's what we're talking about. >> what national security issue can justify an increase? >> we're going to cut 80,000 soldiers, 20,000 marines, 120 cargo planes. we're going on push the joint -- >> this invites weakness. look, do we believe in peace, you bet we do, and that means you don't impose these devastating cuts on our military. we're saying don't cut the military by $1 trillion. not increase it by $1 is trillion. don't cut it by $1 trillion. >> quickly, vice president biden. might want to move on. >> we don't cut it. i might add, i know we don't want to use fancy words to question this automatic cut. that was part of a debt deal that they asked for, and let me tell you what my friend said at a press conference announcing he supported the deal. he said we've been looking for this moment for a long time. >> i tell you what that meant? >> automatic cuts in defense that they didn't act, and beyond that they ask for another -- look, the military says we need a smaller, leaner army
cut defense by $1 trillion. that's what we're talking about. >> what national security issue can justify an increase? >> we're going to cut 80,000 soldiers, 20,000 marines, 120 cargo planes. we're going on push the joint -- >> this invites weakness. look, do we believe in peace, you bet we do, and that means you don't impose these devastating cuts on our military. we're saying don't cut the military by $1 trillion. not increase it by $1 is trillion. don't cut it by $1...
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. >> the secretary of defense has ordered that all the services permit will tiomen to fly. >> for the air force the young lieutenant who garage waited at the top of her flight training class would be the first. >> i realize not every person wanted this to happen. some did, some didn't. i realize it is pretty irrelevant. >> when i started flying i didn't focus on me being different i focused on trying to do my best. >> reporter: but the pressure and spotlight on the first female combat aviators was enormous. just months after jeanie flynn finished flight school, the navy's first female carrier-based pilot crashed on approach. >> raise your gear. power. eject. eject. >> reporter: her death brought renewed calls of disapproval. and a new approach in managing the women. they virtually disappeared from the public eye. >> the attention made it harder to become part of the squadron. when they realized i was not trying to change things. i wanted to be the best fighter pilot i could be. when they realized i was competent i was accepted. >> reporter: competent is putting it mildly. in the last
. >> the secretary of defense has ordered that all the services permit will tiomen to fly. >> for the air force the young lieutenant who garage waited at the top of her flight training class would be the first. >> i realize not every person wanted this to happen. some did, some didn't. i realize it is pretty irrelevant. >> when i started flying i didn't focus on me being different i focused on trying to do my best. >> reporter: but the pressure and spotlight on the...
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defense increase? >> you want to get into defense now? >> yes, i do. buzz th because that's another math question. how do you do that? >> they proposed a $478 billion cut to defense to begin with. now, we have another $500 billion cut to defense that's lurking on the horizon. they insisted upon that cut being involved in the debt negotiations so -- >> let's put the automatic defense cuts aside, okay? let's put that aside. no one wants that. but i want to know how you do the math and have this increase in defense spending. >> $2 trillion. >> you don't cut defense by a trillion dollars. that's what we're talking about. >> what national security -- >> we're going to cut 80,000 soldiers, 20,000 marines, 120 cargo planes, we're going to push the -- >> drawing down in one war and one war -- >> if these cuts go through, our navy will be the smallest it has been since before world war i. this invites weakness. look. do we believe in peace through strength, you bet we do. that means you don't impose the devasta
defense increase? >> you want to get into defense now? >> yes, i do. buzz th because that's another math question. how do you do that? >> they proposed a $478 billion cut to defense to begin with. now, we have another $500 billion cut to defense that's lurking on the horizon. they insisted upon that cut being involved in the debt negotiations so -- >> let's put the automatic defense cuts aside, okay? let's put that aside. no one wants that. but i want to know how you do...
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here to help up dissect the truth, former secretary of defense, lawrence corb. so great to have you back. >> nice to be with you. >> ms. cutter criticized governor romney because politicizing the libya attack. >> he spoke out even before libya. he accused obama for apologizing for basically the rise that occurred in egypt, when in fact what the spokesman said is we didn't support that crazy movie that was causing it. so, yeah he did politicize it before he knew anything. and when libya came out a lot of people assumed it was also the result of the movie. and general clapper, that's what he said in the beginning, and then it turned out it was obviously an attack by a group of people some of whom had a small connection to al-qaeda. >> jennifer: what did the white house know and when did they know it? because joe biden was saying the intelligence community had not informed the white house. what really hand? can you parse that out for us? >> well, what happened basically because this movie was making its way around the middle east. you had the -- you know, the demon
here to help up dissect the truth, former secretary of defense, lawrence corb. so great to have you back. >> nice to be with you. >> ms. cutter criticized governor romney because politicizing the libya attack. >> he spoke out even before libya. he accused obama for apologizing for basically the rise that occurred in egypt, when in fact what the spokesman said is we didn't support that crazy movie that was causing it. so, yeah he did politicize it before he knew anything. and...
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he needs to get off the ropes or people think he's playing defense. also he needs to call out mitt romney on the lies. there is an objective reality. you can give speeches the next day and hope headlines rebut the claims being made by mitt romney, but the best venue in which do to it is to do it is the debate itself. does he have to get more aggressive. >> i think he needs to get his hands around the fundamental issues of the campaign. mitt romney, someone who lived under his barely distinguishable leadership pit pit is a preposterous public figure. it's absurd that four years after the financial sector almost burned down the world that one of our major political parties would elect mitt romney for president. it's absurd that the principle reason for his candidacy for six months was running away from all the good he did in massachusetts. and it's preposterous to believe that he suddenly made this turn to the middle for any other reason but naked political expediency. he's a ridiculous figure on many levels. unless the president is willing to illustrat
he needs to get off the ropes or people think he's playing defense. also he needs to call out mitt romney on the lies. there is an objective reality. you can give speeches the next day and hope headlines rebut the claims being made by mitt romney, but the best venue in which do to it is to do it is the debate itself. does he have to get more aggressive. >> i think he needs to get his hands around the fundamental issues of the campaign. mitt romney, someone who lived under his barely...
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>> i feel like i have to rush to the defense of people who look boyish. >> but you're not running for vice president. >> thank god. >> but if you were, that would be part of the case you had to make that you were ready. this is not the most important issue tonight, but it has been bugging me as give been doing all this prep is when before mitt romney picked paul ryan he was making the case on the campaign trail that nobody should be allowed to run for president of the united states. amend the u.s. constitution so you couldn't run unless you had significant private sector experience, except for paul ryan who he picked to be his vice presidential nominee. do you think that distance between ryan and romney, ed, is the most important thing? most important opening tonight for joe biden? >> well, in your opening you talked about how they're very much the same. washingtonites. but the way they got there is a lot different. ryan's path was one of privilege. joe biden's was one of true middle class. i think tonight's debate is as much about how liberals are going to feel when it's over with, a
>> i feel like i have to rush to the defense of people who look boyish. >> but you're not running for vice president. >> thank god. >> but if you were, that would be part of the case you had to make that you were ready. this is not the most important issue tonight, but it has been bugging me as give been doing all this prep is when before mitt romney picked paul ryan he was making the case on the campaign trail that nobody should be allowed to run for president of the...
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he got testy about being on defense. i think that came across to the american people. >> a testy governor romney who spent the entire time on defense. >> i think for some folks at home it probably came across a little testy. >> yeah, no. nice try. i mean, maybe mitt romney was testy, at the presidential debate, and maybe joe biden did laugh in paul ryan's face all night at the vice presidential debate. but that is in part because these guys, mitt romney and joe biden, were pumped and they were pumped because they were obviously winning their debates. and complaining about that does not change that. but the other person who was pumped last night and whose performance was both winning and, therefore, grating to the side who came out the worst last night, was the mod rate erator raddatz. she gave both candidates almost exactly equal time. but martha raddatz who i officially would now support for president, herself, martha raddatz kept it moving and stopped these guys from diving down talking points rabbit holes. >> with all
he got testy about being on defense. i think that came across to the american people. >> a testy governor romney who spent the entire time on defense. >> i think for some folks at home it probably came across a little testy. >> yeah, no. nice try. i mean, maybe mitt romney was testy, at the presidential debate, and maybe joe biden did laugh in paul ryan's face all night at the vice presidential debate. but that is in part because these guys, mitt romney and joe biden, were...
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now we have another $500 billion cut to defense on the horizon. -- >> let's put the automatic defense cuts aside. no one wants that. but i want to know how you do the math and have this increase in defense spending -- >> biden: $2 trillion. >> ryan: you don't cut defense -- >> and what national security issue justifies an increase? >> ryan: we're going to cut 80,000 solders, 20,000 marines, 120 cargo plains -- >> and one war -- >> ryan: if these cuts go through our navy will be the smallest it has been since world war i. we're saying don't cut the military by a trillion dollars, not increase it don't cut it by a trillion dollars. >> biden: we don't cut it. and i might add -- i know we don't want to use the fancy word sequester, that was part of a debt deal they asked for. my friend said we have been looking for this moment for a long time. >> ryan: can i tell you what that meant? we have been looking for bipartisanship for a long time. >> biden: and that's what he voted for and beyond that they asked for another -- the military says we need a smaller, leaner army. we need more social
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former first lady laura bush and hundreds of thousands of others are rushing to this teenager's defense as the terrorists who tried to kill her once make new threats about what happens if she survives. >>> plus, both the state department and white house took hard questions on the terror attack in benghazi this week. former white house press secretary dana perino is here to weigh in live on whether the white house has now cleared itself of the charge that it covered up what happened with these benghazi attacks or whether it's digging a deeper -- structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. i wish my patients could see what i see. ♪ that over time, having high cholesterol and any of these risk factors can put them at increased risk for plaque buildup inheir arteries. so it's even more important to lower their cholesterol, and that's why, when diet and exercise alonaren't enough, i prescribe crestor. in a clinical trial versus lipitor, crestor got more high-risk patients' bad cholesterol to a goal of under 100. [ female
former first lady laura bush and hundreds of thousands of others are rushing to this teenager's defense as the terrorists who tried to kill her once make new threats about what happens if she survives. >>> plus, both the state department and white house took hard questions on the terror attack in benghazi this week. former white house press secretary dana perino is here to weigh in live on whether the white house has now cleared itself of the charge that it covered up what happened...
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defending defense spending to democrats trying to save big bird, we have seen it at both debates and we are seeing it in races across the country. >> under president obama there has been $500 billion taken out of the military and sequestration going into affect that is another $500 billion which are draconian cuts that hurt our ability to protect the national security and the last few weeks have shown this is a very dangerous world. >>neil: that was ted cruz the republican senate candidate in texas with me yesterday in kentucky. now, fair and balanced, the democratic challenger. where do you, sir, see this race ultimately decided, not your own, in general, if you had to distinguish between parties right now. how do you look at it? >>guest: well, between myself and mr. cruz it is a very different background. i have legislative experience, i have passed major pieces of legislation in this state and i am the more -- he wants to get rid of the i.r.s., i will support social security and medicare and medicaid and that the difference. he wants to for wholesale changes to the programs. >>nei
defending defense spending to democrats trying to save big bird, we have seen it at both debates and we are seeing it in races across the country. >> under president obama there has been $500 billion taken out of the military and sequestration going into affect that is another $500 billion which are draconian cuts that hurt our ability to protect the national security and the last few weeks have shown this is a very dangerous world. >>neil: that was ted cruz the republican senate...
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i think that just shows you how much biden was aggressive, trying to put ryan on the defensive and i think did sort of control the agenda of the debate, if you will, enforcing, and forcing ryan to be on the defensive but it is interesting, they both seemed to have separate game plans, the ryan folks got the impression that biden was going to throw everything at them and boy did he, i don't think he left anything out there and even got the phrase forcible rape in there, 47 percent, you name the detrimentally blue meat if you will rather than calling it red meat and biden threw it and ryan and ryan took the bait a couple of times but didn't take it a lot, i agree with john i think the abortion issue was probably the one opening there, if you are looking at where detrimentallies are going to try to democrats are going to try to drive a wedge, there is scinating and a lot of chatter and republicans and mitch mcconnell on nbc, immediately .. tried to compare biden to al gore and the size, one thing you say if that is the first thing republicans are spinning, that's a little bit of a tell
i think that just shows you how much biden was aggressive, trying to put ryan on the defensive and i think did sort of control the agenda of the debate, if you will, enforcing, and forcing ryan to be on the defensive but it is interesting, they both seemed to have separate game plans, the ryan folks got the impression that biden was going to throw everything at them and boy did he, i don't think he left anything out there and even got the phrase forcible rape in there, 47 percent, you name the...
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i don't think ignorance is a good defense. i think the reality is they should have known. good leadership, a good president should be saying my goodness we were bombed in libya twice? what are we doing to improve security there. not just sit lack and wait and see. we have four people killed. we haven't had a u.s. ambassador killed overseas since the 1970s. >> laura: congressman, the "the washington post" today is reporting that political chaos in libya today hammers the u.s. probe of the deadly benghazi attacks. and basically saying that when you call over, when we call over to officials in libya, no one is answering the phone. so, it's more than a month later, and apparently, according to this article, we have made very little progress because of the situation on the ground which begs the question if it's difficult on the ground now, presumably it was difficult on the ground before september 11th, correct? >> on september 1st, the interior minister there in libya issued a high alert. it's the maximum alert they can. ambassador stevens sent that cable to washington, d.c. t
i don't think ignorance is a good defense. i think the reality is they should have known. good leadership, a good president should be saying my goodness we were bombed in libya twice? what are we doing to improve security there. not just sit lack and wait and see. we have four people killed. we haven't had a u.s. ambassador killed overseas since the 1970s. >> laura: congressman, the "the washington post" today is reporting that political chaos in libya today hammers the u.s....
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>> no massive defense increase. >> you want to go to defense right now? >> yes, i do. that's another math question. how do you do that? >> they proposed cuts to defense to begin with, now we have another $500 billion cut to defense and they insisted that cut being involved in the debt negotiations. >> let's put the automatic defense cuts aside. >> okay. >> let's put that aside. no one wants that. i want to know, how do you do the math and have the increase in defense spending. >> you don't cut defense by a trillion. that's what we're talking about. >> what national security issue is justify an increase? >> we'll cut 80,000 soldiers, 20,000 marines, 120 cargo planes, we'll put the joint -- >> drawing down. and one more and one more. >> if these cuss go through, our navy will be the smallest it has been since before world war i. this invites weakness. do we believe in strength? you bet we do. you don't impose these devastating cuts on our military. don't cut the military by a trillion. not increase it by a million, don't cut it by a trillion. >> quickly, vi
>> no massive defense increase. >> you want to go to defense right now? >> yes, i do. that's another math question. how do you do that? >> they proposed cuts to defense to begin with, now we have another $500 billion cut to defense and they insisted that cut being involved in the debt negotiations. >> let's put the automatic defense cuts aside. >> okay. >> let's put that aside. no one wants that. i want to know, how do you do the math and have the...